"Humble birth did not ***** his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul."

-- Cass Gilbert

#Humble Quotes #Soul Quotes #Genius Quotes

“Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.”
“I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.”
“The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.”
“There is no space wider than that of grief ...”
“Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.”
“Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.”

Source : Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.32
“. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That's also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It's as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first.”
“Coldplay I really like a lot. David Grey, I'm obsessed with.”

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